Inside a Pearl Quotes

“For me a current lover has always been like whatever current book I'm writing - an obsessive project orienting all my thoughts.”
― Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris

“Like many hard-bitten cynics, he cried easily and was always falling into fluttery love with his type, clean-cut Yalies.”
― Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris

“Many French people were difficult conversationalists. Asking them not only where they were originally from but what they did in life was considered rude—I suppose because many of them did nothing (many Parisians are rentiers, people who live off the rents of their properties) or because they weren’t proud of their jobs, which simultaneously supported and interfered with their intellectual and artistic passions.”
― Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris

“Americans were so enthusiastic on first meeting; I'd forgotten that enthusiasm didn't mean anything. The cliche among Europeans was that friendships with Americans didn't go anywhere.”
― Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris